Blank for collars.



No. 744,511. PATENTED N0v..17, 1903'.

G. J. DORMANDY.

BLANK FOR GOLLARS.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 4, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

2 SHEETS-SHEET.1.

No. 744,511. PATENTED NOV. 17, 1903.,

' G. J. DORMANDY.

BLANK FOR GOLLARS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPTA; 1903.

N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETSSHEET 2.

ww I j @QMW the article thereat for the buttonholes.

UNIT D. STATES Patented November 17, 196 3.

I PATENT OFFICE. I

GARRY J. DORMANDY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED AND COLLAR COMPANY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BLANK FORCOLLARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,511, dated November 17, 1903.

Application filed September 4,1903. Serial No. 171,915. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GARRY J. DORMANDY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blanks for Collars, Cuffs, or Analogous Articles, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by drawings.

This invention relates to blanks for collars, culis, or analogous articles; and its objects are'to improve upon such blanks and enable them to be more readily folded with smoothness. 1

Further objects of the inventionwill hereinafter appear; and to these ends the inventio n consists of the improved blank for collars, cuffs, or analogous articles embodying the features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts substantially as hereinafter fully described and claimed in this specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l isa side view of the stiff outer ply of a collar cut away at the marginal portions. Fig. 2 is a side view of the thin inner ply. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the stifieningpieces utilized in the improved blank. Fig. 5 is. a side view of a collar looking at the outside before folding. Fig. 6 isa view looking at the inside before folding, with the stiffening-pieces suitably secured to the marginal portions. Fig. 7 is a view-0f the collar looking at the outside after folding. Fig. 8 is an inside View of the collar after folding with one of the stifiening-pieces removed.

This invention is illustrated in connection with the art or process of manufacturing collars, although it may be applied to cufis or analogous articles. The collar illustrated comprises a plurality of plys of material, some of which are cut away at marginal portions to reduce the thickness or stifiness of The collar illustrated is what is termed a nosepoint collar, in which it is essential that the corners of the liningshould be cut out to make a flexible point for the buttonhole.

This invention is not only applicable to nose-point collars, but it is likewise adapted other, as in Fig. 5, it will be seen that the to cuffs or to any other shapes in which it is desiredto cut out a thinner part for the buttonhole or other purposes or in which it is desired to permit collars to be folded more readily at that point, as would be the case with certain wingcollars and other wellknown forms.

In collars or other analogous articles in which a portion of the lining is cut out to make a flexible point for the buttonhole great difficulty has been experienced in attemping to turn these collars on the machine, because the upper part is thick and the lower part is thin, so that very inferior work in turningis apt to be obtained. This improved blank obviates the difficulty in turning, as

will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings the stiff outer ply or lining A is cut away, as shown','at the marginal portions B at the ends, while the thin inner ply C is provided with the nose-points D. The collar of the character described has been shown in order to illustrate the improved blank. When two plys are laid one upon the nose-points are formed of one thin ply.

According to this improved blank stiffening-pieces E are removably applied to the marginal portions of the blanks before infolding the edges of the blanks. The stiffening-pieces E may be pasted to the blank or they may be simply laid thereon in being folded. By applying the extra piece or stifiening-piece E on the nose of the blank the thin portion is compensated for, and without the extra piece it is exceedingly difficult to fold the blanks, because the machine cannot be adjusted to fold both the thick and thin portions, and in pressing the blank the nose portion, which needs to be pressed very thoroughly, will naturally not receive the full pressure, because the thicker part of the blank will prevent the infoldersfrom being brought down with sufticient pressure upon the thin portion. By utilizing the extra stiffening-pieces E these difficulties are remedied.

Without the stiffening-pieces one difficulty that has been experienced is that it is almost impossible to obtain the proper folding of the material around the die on the thinner part, loo

because the thicker portion, being so near to the nose, will prevent one ply of the material at the nose from being brought up closely around the edge of the telnplet, and consequently the folding at the thin portion is apt to be in plates and not smooth and sharply defined.

According to this invention the folding is smooth and even and does not fall in plates and is sharply defined.

Fig. 7 shows the outside of the blank after having been folded, with the extra stifieningpieces in position, while Fig. 8 is an inside view of the folded blank with one of the stifiening-pieces removed. After the blank has been folded the stiffening-pieces are removed, leaving the folds smooth and sharply defined.

The blanks are preferably heated before or simultaneously with the pressing. It is to be understood that the application of the extra stiEening-pieces E may be either to the inside or outside of the blank.

Obviously this invention may be embodied in'dilferent forms,and therefore, without 1imiting the invention to the form shown and described, I

I claim, and desire to obtain byLetters Patent, the following:

A blank for collars, cuflfs, or analogous articles, consisting of a plurality of plies of material, one or more of which are cut away at the marginal portions to reduce the thickness, the said blank having detachably secured at such portions an outer thickness or backing, whereby the said blanks may be mechanically infolded and pressed with substantially the same facility as articles not having such cut-away portions, for substantially the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GARRY J. DORMANDY. Witnesses:

CHAs. L. PINE, WM. S. GREER. 

